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(Not) your everyday public space / Jeffrey Hou -- Appropriating. Dancing on the streets of Beijing : improved uses within the urban system / Caroline Chen ; Latino urbanism in Los Angeles : a model for urban improvisation and reinvention / James Rojas ; Taking place : Rebar's absurd tactics in generous urbanism / Blaine Merker.

Community gardens in America -- Making and sustaining a community garden -- Seattle model: local activism and institutional support -- Interbay P-Patch -- Thistle P-Patch -- Danny Woo International District Community Garden -- Bradner Gardens Park -- Marra Farm -- Magnuson Community Garden -- Expressions and challenges of sustainability -- Designing and supporting urban community gardens as hybrid public space -- Visions of urban community gardens: people, communities, and cities

This paper surveys the difef rent regional development strategies emerging in Taiwan in irs current political, institutional, and socio­ economic context. It argues that the current strategies reflect and reinforce Taiwan's dual disparities: the persistence of regional economic disparity in spite ofincreasing GDP, and the institutional disparity of a highly centralized regional economic development planningframeworkfor an economy based on localized networks of small and medium-sized enterprises. In examining the existing strategies, this study finds a dual squeeze of the state-centered institutions on the one hand and local political interests on the other as the centralproblem in regional development in Taiwan. This has led to the pursuit of environmentally costly strategies for development in logging regions. Thispoper argues that Taiwan's egional evelopment efforts will not be effective at encouraging endogenous economic growth in the less urbanized regions unless regional-level environmental, economic, and social concerns are recognized and incorporated into development plans. This will likely require the restructuring. of the existing institutional andpolitical environment.

Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy which often challenge understanding and appreciation. With a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the "Other" Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban formality and the contexts in which this "messiness" emerges or is constructed. The book brings a distinct perspective to the broader patterns of informal urban orders and processes as well as their interplay with formalized systems and mechanisms. It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship

Neoliberal urban restructuring constitutes an underlying challenge facing cities and communities around the world. Public space, as a medium of political engagement and social interactions, may represent a vehicle for resistance against patterns of shrinking democracy. In its capacity as a place for active democracy, public spaces – the lived spaces of contemporary societies – deserve greater care, attention, and critical reflection. As movements evolve to confront new challenges, explore new opportunities, negotiate with new actors and circumstances, and utilise new technologies and platforms, our understanding of the agency of democracy – supported through an understanding of civic dignity – must also advance. This paper aims at examining the role of public space in reclaiming and reinstating democracy. By drawing on empirical findings from cities worldwide, explored through the lens of multiple disciplines, it argues that the study of urban protest might show directions for a new, dignified politics of public space. It asks how this study may enable planners and designers to contribute to the spatial emergence of human and civic dignity.

Neoliberal urban restructuring constitutes an underlying challenge facing cities and communities around the world. Public space, as a medium of political engagement and social interactions, may represent a vehicle for resistance against patterns of shrinking democracy. In its capacity as a place for active democracy, public spaces – the lived spaces of contemporary societies – deserve greater care, attention, and critical reflection. As movements evolve to confront new challenges, explore new opportunities, negotiate with new actors and circumstances, and utilise new technologies and platforms, our understanding of the agency of democracy – supported through an understanding of civic dignity – must also advance. This paper aims at examining the role of public space in reclaiming and reinstating democracy. By drawing on empirical findings from cities worldwide, explored through the lens of multiple disciplines, it argues that the study of urban protest might show directions for a new, dignified politics of public space. It asks how this study may enable planners and designers to contribute to the spatial emergence of human and civic dignity.

In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities, representing a significant departure from earlier state-led or market-driven urban development. These emerging civic urbanisms are a result of an evolving relationship between the state and civil society. The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing state?civil society relationship affects the recent surge of civic urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei, and the authors present eighteen cases of grassroots activism and resistance, collaboration and placemaking, neighbourhood community building, and self-organization and commoning in these cities. Exploring how citizen participation and state?civil society partnerships contribute to more resilient and participatory neighbourhoods and cities, the authors use the concept of civic urbanisms not only as a conceptual framework to understand the ongoing social and urban change but as an aspirational model of urban governance for cities in Asia and beyond.

"After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities as we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today's cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The essays inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these essays written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city"--

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Suiting Up to Shed -- What's in It f or Us? Designing a Durable Team -- I Am Someone Who -- Challenging the Blank Slate -- Environmental Autobiography Adaptations -- Finding Yourself in the Census -- Consume, Vend, and Produce -- 2. Going to the People's Coming -- Start by Listening -- Village Talk -- Community Camera: Piga Picha -- Sketching Together -- El Carrito: Rolling Out the Cart -- Pop Up Meeting -- 3. Experting: They Know, We Know, and Together We Know Better, Later -- Cellphone Diaries: Asset Mapping with Mobile Technology -- Mining the Indigenous -- The Investigative Reporter -- Reflect, Articulate, Project (R.A.P.) Method for Sharing Community Stories -- Adults Designing Playgrounds by Becoming Children -- 4. Calming and Evoking -- Mapping the Common Living Sphere -- Visual Timeline -- Children's Exciting Neighborhood Exploration Event -- Community Innovation Forum -- The Big Map -- 5. "Yeah! Thats What We Should Do" -- Prioritizing Decisions -- Community Voting, Local Committees -- Getting a Gestalt -- In-House Aha! -- Renkei Method: Scaling Up by Connecting Scenes -- 6. Co-generating -- Drawing Out the Sacred, Upside Down -- Green Rubber Stamp -- Design Buffet -- Place It Workshop -- Picture Collage Game -- Designing Life -- 7. Engaging the Making -- Start with Building -- Early Success through banner Making -- Pallet Furniture -- La Maqueta: Interactive Model for Studying and Imagining the City -- Cross-Culture Prototyping -- Design/Build Service Learning Studio -- 8. Testing, Testing, Can You Hear Me? Do I Hear Your Right? -- The Spatial Design Game: A Design Game that Teaches and Tests -- Anticipated Archetypes and Unexpected Idiosyncrasies -- Raise Your Own Sea Level